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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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